GSR.......(E) .... In exercise of the
powers conferred by the proviso to article 309 read with clause (5) of
article 148 of the Constitution and after consultation with the
Comptroller and Auditor General of India in relation to the persons
serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the President
hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Civil
Services (Leave) Rules, 1972, namely:-

I. (i) These rules may be called the Central Civil Services (Leave) (Amendment) Rules, 2012.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of theìr publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972, for rule 12, the following rule shall be substituted, namely:-

“12.(I) No Government Servant shall be granted leave of any kind for a continuous period exceeding five years.

(2) Unless the President, in
view of the exceptional circumstances of the case, otherwise
determines, a Government servant who remains absent from duty for a
continuous period exceeding five years other than on foreign service,
with or without leave, shall be deemed to have resigned from the
Government service :

Provided that a reasonable
opportunity to explain the reasons for such absence shall be givne to
that Government servant before provisions of sub-rule (2) are invoked”.